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“I wear a lot of Saint Laurent because it's so classic rock star.”
“I don't feel the need to be present in the culture unless I have a song out.”
“Our pre-show ritual is to not have any pre-show rituals.”
“I don't like Jeremy Corbyn, I don't like Boris Johnson, I didn't trust either of them.”
“I just have a lot of ideas and very little attention span.”
“Well, I don't really listen to The 1975 when I'm chilling at home.”
“There's some things that are so transcendent that it doesn't feel like, you know, a bloke can own it.”
“A lot of my therapy is with horses. I did a lot equine therapy, which at first - an Englishman trying to talk to a horse was just me rolling my eyes in a field for three days, but it eventually became amazing.”
“One could criticize me for loads of things, but you can't criticize me for being insincere. Annoying, whatever. But I'm not insincere.”
“I started my band when I was 13 years old. We were a real band.”
“I'm an exhausting person to be around.”
“I'm very much in my own world with The 1975, so when I do an interview I have to treat it like a conversation in everyday life. Which sometimes gets me in trouble.”
“My dad's mates were all in bands, and I just wanted to be like my Dad's mates.”
“Counter-culture will always exist.”
“I didn't feel particularly cool when I was 16 or 17 but I felt accepted in a community of alternative music and the gig scene.”
“I'm never not going to have my work, because I am my work. I don't have any removal from The 1975 and me, and I don't find that complicated.”
“I never thought of any of our songs as 'hits,' so to speak - we just wrote them for us.”
“I'll never compromise my values.”
“The days of the NME being like, 'This is your new favorite band, and here's one song' - that's over.”
“I'm super into technology. That's my bag. I love it. I read a lot about it.”